Nine more kabaddi players were today caught for using banned steroids, taking the total number of dope flunked players who were tested early this month during the selection trials of the World Cup to 19.

Yesterday, the National Anti-Doping Agency announced that 10 out of 21 kabbadi players whose test results were available have returned positive for banned substances. Today, the results of the remaining 29 urine samples were available and nine were found to have contained banned steroids.

Altogether, 50 kabaddi players were tested during the selection trials in Ludhiana early this month.

“Selection Trial (Men) of 2nd World Cup Kabaddi, Punjab 2011 was held at Ludhiana on 5th October 2011 and the Dope Control Programme was organised by NADA as per the request of Punjab Government. A total of 51 urine samples were collected and deposited in the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) on the 6th October 2011,” NADA Director General Rahul Bhatnagar said in a release.

“Out of Laboratory analytical reports in respect of another 29 samples received from NDTL today, 09 samples have been found positive, making the total of positive cases to 19 out of 50 samples. The prohibited substances found in these 09 cases are stanozolol, methendinone, Trenbolone, Drostanolone nandrolone, phentermine(stimulant),” he said.